basically the left is socially ascendant, in the same way that anti-affiliation (proto grey tribe?) freaks and weirdos generally arced left in the early aughts against the encroaching right blob this seems to now be our baseline sentimenthttps://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1060348895102943232 …
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Now you're unpersoned in my social stratum if you demonstrate Insufficient Wokeness And that, now, is the main political threat I face It's always something, because guys I am just not capable of political conformity and *any* localized Witch hunt is likely to collect my head.
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I am still a jingo
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The Russians Shall Not Have Constantinople
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Or it's what happens when you switch from believing that you have 49% of the voters on your side to believing you have 51% on your side. You stop compromising and start proselytizing. Political speech is now meant to convince the apathetic, not the opposition.
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Yeah, it's totally a Timur Kuran-style switching function of beliefs about the distribution of beliefs
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and what's also strange is watching THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN. Like, it's the same freakouts about Improper Sexuality, Entertainment Rotting Our Morals, Evil Russian Perfidy. Like, you can just about reprint any damn thing from 1982 and it'll fit right in!
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